Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-11-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

70 make law that shall protect pat
terms and models for the metal indus
try.
1t costs about one and one-hal
cents pound to manufacture sugar
inc" by the secret formula which is il
use.
--Side-saddles were first used il
England in 1888. Up to that tim,
ladies rode on horseback just as tn,
men.
Bank note engraving is said t.
have been carried to greater perfec
ton in the United States than any
where else in the world.
"A white owl flew aboard steamer
from Hull, England. while seven hun.
dred and fifty miles from land, recent.
ly, and was brought to Boston.
The first triple expansion engine
built in the United States was from the
Goss Machine Engine Works, Bath,
Me-. and was put on board the steamer
Meteor
There must be some profit in five
cent music, for man who deals in il
and sells nothing else, has taken a
store on Broadway, N. Y, at yearly
rental OF six thousand five hundred dol
lars.
General Annenkoff who is build
Ing the Russian railroad at Bokhara, is
man of fifty-five years, full of vigor,
energy and hope. His wife is less than
half his age and is very wealthy Ger
man lady.
A bald eagle killed recently near
Santa Rosa, CAL, measured seventy
eight inches from tip to tip of his
wings, and his talons, when opened,
measured seven and quarter inches
Chicago Herald.
The bounty law passed by the Mon
tana Legislature gives on mountain
lions and bears three dollars. wolves
two dollars, COYOTES one dollar, prai-
RE dogs ten cents, and ground squir-
rels five cents each.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser says of Mrs
Wilson, who is the sister of p. 2. Bliss:
"With a voice sweet and of great
strength, she moves at will an audience
to tears or high resolve"
Edward Payson Weston, the father
OF long distance walking, has again
returned to journalism, his original
occupation. and he is now a member of
the staff of one of the morning papers
OF this city.--N. Y Herald.
mn
The work performed by the human
body in day in circulating the blood.
in breathing and in other processes is
equal to that of twenty-five horse power
for one minute, or sufficient to light a
incandescent lamp contin-
uously.
English horticulturists have redis-
covered an old fashioned flower, a dat
fodil, which differs from all known daft
fodils. Its blossoms are of clear.
bright chrome yellow. and il as been
called Narcissus cyclamineus, on ac-
count of its refexed perianth.
The number of horses exported
from the port of New York during the
past four years, and their value, was as
follows: In 1888, $40 head; value, $16l-
700. In 1884, 4S8 head; value, $751;
635. In 1855, 375 head; value, $143.-
481. In 1886, 38S head; value, $780,
S58.
"A tract of sulphur. one hundred
and twenty-five acres in extent and
nom three to fifteen feet deep. is said
to have been discovered in the Tara
vera district of New Zealand, where
the great volcanic convulsion occurred
last year. According to the natives, it
has been known to them for years.
Y. Ledger.
1t has been calculated that in dig
ging square perch of ground, with
spits of the usual dimensions of 7xS
Inches, the spade is thrust into the
ground 700 times; and that as each
spadeful of earth, if the spade pene-
trate, as it ought to, nine inches.
weighs on an average quite SC venteen
pounds, there are II. 900 pounds OF
earth in II perch nine inches deep
Boston Budget.
In Yell County, Ark, las. week,
Mrs. Sarah Dimnitt was riding along
The road with her little boy behind her.
and in passing burning tree saw that
= was going to fall across the road.
She screamed and the horse stopped
still, when, quick as lightning, she
Jumped OIL, snatched her child and got
'ut OF the way just rs the tree came
crashing down across the saddle, kill
ng the horse instantly. Cincinnati
Times.
Tho rigid, but antiquated, rules of
caste in India meet hard shocks from
modern scientific improvements The |
Senegal Agricultural Department per-
'uadcd an intelligent native to use
bone manure in cultivating beet-root.
dis crop was the largest he ever had.